It doesn’t matter if you’re a child or a brand manager. It’s easy to be afraid of the unknown. Whether it’s a monster under the bed or an untested creative…
The whole point of measuring everything and putting a number to every act, result or sentiment is done in the name of efficiency and accuracy. The idea is that the…
An advertisement that reveals a truth is what makes a great ad. It may make you uncomfortable, and it may get under your skin, and it will certainly make you…
There’s a troubling problem festering within the advertising industry today—many have forgotten how advertising works. Creativity, once the driving force of effective campaigns, is being suffocated by performance marketing directives,…
With $8 million on the line every 30 seconds during Super Bowl commercial breaks, fortunes and careers rise and fall. This year we were once again bombarded by the good…
Navigating the CMO’s Journey Out of the Performance Era and Into a Creative Reawakening For years, marketing has been a battlefield of competing priorities. The emphasis on short-term performance metrics…
Halloween immediately conjures up images of yards strewn with webs and skeletons, houses filled with pumpkins, and kids going door to door in search of sweets. It also ushers in…
Kamala Harris needs to go off script; her consultants need to get out of the way. A headline in the Washington Post recently read: “Harris launches unscripted interview blitz after…
Former Wall Street Journal editor Dave Kansas is the head of the financial PR services group at DeVito/Verdi. In this role, he will be working with organizations and companies –…
After 150+ years of being a truly classic brand synonymous with a singular product, Campbell’s Soup Company is employing an “addition by subtraction” strategy starting today. Today marks the day…